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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
What to know as Harvard professor Francesca Gino has tenure revoked amid data fraud investigation
For the first time in roughly 80 years, Harvard University has revoked the tenure of one of its professors. Former Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino, widely known for researching honesty and ethical behavior, had her tenure revoked, a university spokesperson confirmed on Monday. Gino, 47, and her attorneys did not immediately return requests for comment. The former professor was placed on administrative leave in 2023 after multiple allegations of falsifying data surfaced. She has long maintained that she did not commit academic fraud. Harvard declined to provide additional details about her revocation, noting that it does not discuss personnel matters. The move does not appear to be related to the university's ongoing standoff with the Trump administration. For weeks, Harvard and the administration have been in legal battles over cuts to the university's federal funding and ability to enroll foreign students. However, the revocation represents an unprecedented penalty at Harvard, where no professor has lost their tenure since the 1940s, according to the student university paper The Harvard Crimson, during an exceptional time in the history of the nation's oldest university. Gino graduated with an economics degree from a small university in Italy, her home country, a copy of her resume says. She then earned her PhD in economics from the University of Pisa, before moving to the United States to work on a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. "I was supposed to stay in the U.S. for about 6 to 9 months," she wrote in a 2023 post on LinkedIn. "But I truly loved my research and my work, so I never left." "I'll never forget how fortunate I was to have people at Harvard invest in me," she added. Gino then worked as a lecturer and researcher at Harvard Business School before becoming a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and later at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. According to her resume, she returned to Harvard as a professor at the university's business school in 2010, teaching graduate courses on decision-making and negotiation. Three years later, she published her first book, Sidetracked, on the science behind decision-making. In 2015, business school news site Poets&Quants named her a 'best 40 under 40 professor.' Gino published a second book in 2018, Rebel Talent, in which she argues that rule breakers and contrarians are the most successful in business and in life. Throughout her academic career, she has published more than 140 scholarly papers, many of which have been widely featured in the media, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NBC News. Her research centered on behavioral economics, organizational behavior, decision making, negotiation and ethics, according to Harvard's website. The Harvard Crimson reported that in 2018 and 2019, Gino was the fifth highest paid employee at the university, receiving more than $1 million in compensation per year. Some of her most prominent studies have been centered on dishonesty. A team of behavioral professors and researchers affiliated with the blog site Data Coloda began examining several studies co-authored by Gino in 2021, "because we had concerns that they contained fraudulent data," the site said. The site alleged that the data in the study Gino co-authored had been fabricated, which the researchers denied. Later that year, the blog said it shared concerns about more than four of Gino's other papers with Harvard Business School. Gino was then placed on unpaid administrative leave in June 2023 after an 18-month review by the university concluded that Gino committed "research misconduct," according to a lawsuit Gino filed against Harvard and Data Colada that year. Data Colada's post about their examination of Gino is also cited in her lawsuit. According to the suit, the move removed Gino from her teaching, research, and titled professorship responsibilities. Gino sued Harvard and Data Colada for defamation, seeking $25 million in relief. The suit points to changes Harvard made to its internal policies regarding the integrity of its research in 2021, which appeared to be made in response to the allegations against Gino. Last year, a federal judge partially dismissed the lawsuit, denying Gino the ability to pursue charges that the university defamed her. However, the judge allowed Gino's claim that the university breached its contract with her to proceed. A month later, Gino amended the lawsuit to include gender discrimination claims. This article was originally published on
NBC News
27-05-2025
- Business
- NBC News
What to know as Harvard professor Francesca Gino has tenure revoked amid data fraud investigation
For the first time in roughly 80 years, Harvard University has revoked the tenure of one of its professors. Former Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino, widely known for researching honesty and ethical behavior, had her tenure revoked, a university spokesperson confirmed on Monday. Gino, 47, and her attorneys did not immediately return requests for comment. The former professor was placed on administrative leave in 2023 after multiple allegations of falsifying data surfaced. She has long maintained that she did not commit academic fraud. Harvard declined to provide additional details about her revocation, noting that it does not discuss personnel matters. The move does not appear to be related to the university's ongoing standoff with the Trump administration. For weeks, Harvard and the administration have been in legal battles over cuts to the university's federal funding and ability to enroll foreign students. However, the revocation represents an unprecedented penalty at Harvard, where no professor has lost their tenure since the 1940s, according to the student university paper The Harvard Crimson, during an exceptional time in the history of the nation's oldest university. Who is Professor Francesca Gino? Gino graduated with an economics degree from a small university in Italy, her home country, a copy of her resume says. She then earned her PhD in economics from the University of Pisa, before moving to the United States to work on a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. "I was supposed to stay in the U.S. for about 6 to 9 months," she wrote in a 2023 post on LinkedIn. "But I truly loved my research and my work, so I never left." "I'll never forget how fortunate I was to have people at Harvard invest in me," she added. Gino then worked as a lecturer and researcher at Harvard Business School before becoming a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and later at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. According to her resume, she returned to Harvard as a professor at the university's business school in 2010, teaching graduate courses on decision-making and negotiation. Three years later, she published her first book, Sidetracked, on the science behind decision-making. In 2015, business school news site Poets&Quants named her a ' best 40 under 40 professor. ' Gino published a second book in 2018, Rebel Talent, in which she argues that rule breakers and contrarians are the most successful in business and in life. Throughout her academic career, she has published more than 140 scholarly papers, many of which have been widely featured in the media, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NBC News. Her research centered on behavioral economics, organizational behavior, decision making, negotiation and ethics, according to Harvard's website. The Harvard Crimson reported that in 2018 and 2019, Gino was the fifth highest paid employee at the university, receiving more than $1 million in compensation per year. Some of her most prominent studies have been centered on dishonesty. Allegations of academic fraud A team of behavioral professors and researchers affiliated with the blog site Data Coloda began examining several studies co-authored by Gino in 2021, "because we had concerns that they contained fraudulent data," the site said. The site alleged that the data in the study Gino co-authored had been fabricated, which the researchers denied. Later that year, the blog said it shared concerns about more than four of Gino's other papers with Harvard Business School. Gino was then placed on unpaid administrative leave in June 2023 after an 18-month review by the university concluded that Gino committed "research misconduct," according to a lawsuit Gino filed against Harvard and Data Colada that year. Data Colada's post about their examination of Gino is also cited in her lawsuit. According to the suit, the move removed Gino from her teaching, research, and titled professorship responsibilities. Gino sued Harvard and Data Colada for defamation, seeking $25 million in relief. The suit points to changes Harvard made to its internal policies regarding the integrity of its research in 2021, which appeared to be made in response to the allegations against Gino. Last year, a federal judge partially dismissed the lawsuit, denying Gino the ability to pursue charges that the university defamed her. However, the judge allowed Gino's claim that the university breached its contract with her to proceed. A month later, Gino amended the lawsuit to include gender discrimination claims.
BBC News
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Cynthia Erivo joins Sidetracked with Annie and Nick to discuss the moment she discovered her voice, her demanding Oscars performance, and much more
Oscar nominated singer, songwriter and actress Cynthia Erivo has the voice of a generation. She joins Annie and Nick to talk about the art of singing, the impact it has on her body physically and physiologically, and what it was like writing her new album alongside her starring role in Wicked. Listen to Cynthia Erivo on Sidetracked with Annie and Nick Cynthia speaks about her powerful performance of Defying Gravity at the Oscars, and how she had to dig deep, mentally and physically… Cynthia: And for that song, it needs grounding…Like Home and Defying Gravity strangely need you to like hunker down a bit. Like in that moment, there's no other way to say it, but I had to like sing from my vagina…You know what I'm saying? You gotta dig in….But there are some times where I feel like I could actually take off. And the last concert I did, I ended up lying on the floor on my back. Because I was just like, I felt like I could frigging fly. I was like, oh my God, I'm just, this is insane. Like that kind of view for it, right?' If Cynthia had five minutes left on earth, which song would she sing? Cynthia reveals it has to be Nothing Compares 2 U: Annie: You know everyone talks about death row meals. If you had one song left to sing what would you choose? You have five minutes left on earth. Cynthia: So you know what? And I just said {Sinead O'Connor}, but it's also because she's done it and Prince has done it… It's been seven hours and 16 days. I nearly wore the t-shirt today, I should have worn it. It's my... Nothing compares, nothing compares. That song – every single time. Cynthia describes the physiological effect singing has on the body: Cynthia: What's really insane is, it doesn't matter how much of a song, I could sing one song or 15, it will feel like I've done a full-on workout. Like I'm drenched by the end of it, sweating… it is a bodily experience, it's a physical thing that you have to do. So your body is using all its muscles you're applying your diaphragm, you're applying your lungs, your stomach muscles are going, your breathing muscles are going, your vocal cords, the way you use your face, everything is being used at once. And because of the way I sing and the connection I have to make, I think it becomes a really like physically taxing thing for me. But I feel like I'm on fire, literally. On Synesthesia, or seeing colour when she sings: Cynthia: I have synesthesia, so I see colour when I sing. So when I'm with an orchestra, I see like a colour when they start playing. And so I get like a visceral reaction from the music… it's very interesting because I don't see my own voice in colour, I can hear, see the colour that's being played for me to sing with. Cynthia reflects on the first time she knew she could sing: Annie: When did you know you could sing? Cynthia: I think I knew intellectually that I could sing about age 11. Emotionally, it was probably when I was about five. I knew I was making a sound that people liked. Annie: Yeah, you could sense people, you were bringing joy to a room. … Nick: That process of getting there, is that a gift, something you were born with or something that you've worked at? Or is there a ritual that you do beforehand to get there? Cynthia: I think it's a combination. I think it's something I was born with or I had access to and then learnt to use. And the thing I do before I go on stage, I always, It's either a prayer or a meditation before I get on stage and the request is to be used as a conduit to get to whoever needs it. So I always want my singing to move someone, to connect with someone or many people. Never just for me. Cynthia reveals that she realised the singers who inspire her all sing from emotion. They include: Brandy Norwood, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Sinead O 'Connor, and Annie Lennox. Listen to the full episode of Sidetracked with Annie and Nick to find out more. Listen to Sidetracked with Annie and Nick on BBC Sounds
Telegraph
15-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
King tops Apple podcasts chart with music playlist
A playlist compiled by the King has reached number one in Apple Music's podcasts chart. The King's Music Room, an hour-long podcast that features 17 artists, including Beyoncé, Kylie Minogue and Bob Marley, was released on Monday to mark Commonwealth Day. The collaboration with Apple Music, in which the King introduces each track and delivers some personal reflections on what the songs mean to him, quickly became the most popular music podcast on Apple's weekly charts. His Majesty pipped Sidetracked, a popular podcast with BBC Radio DJ's Nick Grimshaw and Annie Macmanus, which came in second place, and The Rockonteurs, which features former Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp and bassist Guy Pratt, in third. The King, who also released a video from his desk at Buckingham Police introducing the podcast, told listeners that music 'brings us joy' and 'lifts your spirits'. 'Throughout my life music has meant a great deal to me. I know that is also the case for so many others,' he said. 'But it has that remarkable ability to bring happy memories flooding back from the deepest recesses of our memory, to comfort us in times of sadness and take us to distant places. 'But perhaps, above all, it can lift our spirits to such a degree. All the more when it brings us together in celebration. In other words, it brings us joy.' The King's diverse musical selection spans 10 decades and includes crooners, disco divas and reggae icons. The playlist includes Bob Marley and the Wailers' Could You Be Loved, Diana Ross's disco hit Upside Down, Kylie Minogue's 1980s song The Loco-Motion, Grace Jones's cover of Edif Piath's classic La Vie En Rose, Jools Holland and Ruby Turner's My Country Man, Beyonce's dance-stomper Crazy in Love and New Zealand opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 's traditional Maori song E Te Iwi E (Call to the People). Apple has released a bonus track with the podcast, in which some of the musicians respond to being chosen on the King's exclusive playlist. In a recorded message for the King, Ruby Turner recalls performing My Country Man with Jools Holland at a royal event hearing titters in the audience to the racy lyrics to the song about 'I need a man with a whole lot of energy'. 'I remember much hilarity in the room when the lyrics became apparent. However, wonderful times. God bless you and we thank you,' she said. Holland said the selection of the song with Turner confirmed the King's credentials as a 'great boogiest'. 'And, let's face it, all of us need a little boogie every once in a while. So thank you so much for choosing us, Your Majesty,' he said. In her message, Grace Jones offered to come and perform the song for the King. 'I'm so happy to hear La Vie En Rose is one of your favourite songs. I'm so happy we have the same taste in music also. One day I hope to sing it for you live, OK?' she said. Dame Kiri, who performed for the King and Queen on their wedding day almost 20 years ago, said the King was a 'very important, valued person in my life' when she first came to England and sang at Covent Garden. 'I hope that you will bring Queen Camilla to New Zealand. We'd love to welcome you,' she said in the message.
The Guardian
09-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Nick Grimshaw: ‘Getting people to talk about music is the same as talking about food. Both are full of memories'
Born in Oldham in 1984, Nick Grimshaw has just taken over as 6 Music's new breakfast DJ . After stints in PR and TV, his radio career began in 2007 on Radio 1 youth strand Switch; in 2012, he became the station's breakfast presenter, doing it for six years. He's also been an X Factor judge, a Gogglebox regular (with his niece, Liv), has written a memoir, Soft Lad, and co-hosts Waitrose's Dish podcast, with Angela Hartnett, and BBC Sounds podcast Sidetracked, with Annie Mac. Engaged to his dancer partner Meshach Henry, he lives in London and will broadcast live from the 6 Music festival in Greater Manchester, later this month. Congratulations on the new job. How is breakfast DJing different on 6 Music?Radio 1 is about being at the zeitgeist of what's going on in popular culture, so when there's a change of presenter there, it feels seismic – there's new imaging, new jingles, a new attack. The remit on 6 is more about the music, giving you classics you love to hear, and new songs we hope you fall in love with, to actually make you want to get up and survive a Tuesday morning. You've also been caretaking the slot since last summer, since Lauren Laverne's cancer diagnosis (she's since returned, to mid-morning).There was definitely more sensitivity from me as a DJ because Lauren wasn't well. I had listened to her every morning, so it felt quite emotional. I knew how she was a massive part of people's routine. You used to occasionally present Radio 1 shows hungover. How is getting up at dawn for you now?I find it embarrassing that I used to do that – I guess that's growth! I love waking up earlier than I need to now, even on the weekends, taking my dogs out before the day begins, and the streets and the park being quiet. As a teenager, I'd be getting in from a night out at 5.30 or 6 in the morning, seeing my dad awake with his toast in a toast rack, thinking, 'What's wrong with him?' The naivety of being 17! You've always been known for your famous friends such as Kate Moss, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles… how does an ordinary kid from Oldham fit into a glamorous world?There's a perception that anyone who becomes successful or famous becomes different. And I'm sure some famous people are very starry and otherworldly, but then there are people like Kate who are still very grounded and funny. I first met her as an intern at MTV, and she was all [adopts a camp cockney accent and mimes holding a cigarette], 'So, what do you do then?' Maybe that's why some people are famous, too, because they are personable and real. Have you done anything embarrassing in a superstar's house?I took my bull terrier, Pig, to Noel Gallagher's place in the countryside, let her in the back garden, and she ripped up all his plants. Literally all of brother knew Noel before he was famous, didn't he?Yes, they lived in the same block of flats in Manchester, on Whitworth Street – I remember being about 10, and him saying, my friend Noel's band are going to be good. And my dad being like, They're crap. My brother was very instrumental in getting me into music, taking me to gigs. I think I was 10 when Definitely Maybe came out, and my brother got me the CD. I still have it – I literally know where it is. Is doing a podcast about food a welcome change from music?It's funny, getting people to talk about music is the same as talking about food, I think. Both are full of memories; they're personal; they're woven into our lives. It's another portal to good conversation. But I love working with Angela. She's honest and funny, and I love seeing any expert at the top of their game. They could be a physician, the world's best dentist, or a chef. And getting to witness her cooking every week is unreal. Your friend Amy Winehouse died in 2011, and your father died in 2016 – you've had to deal with grief very young. How have you managed that?There are moments when I think about friends or family members I've lost and I don't think you ever get over it. It's a process that you'll go through for the rest of your life, but when you're with the right friends, remembering and honouring [those you've lost] in the right way helps a little bit. With Amy, it's still hard to think about her and talk about her. On a [Sidetracked] podcast I just recorded, someone asked me: 'Is there any music that you can't listen to because it's too emotional?' and Amy's is because she made such soul-baring music. But you also do want to listen, because it's great music. On the10th anniversary of her passing, I went into the BBC archives and found great bits of early interviews and old session tracks for a documentary [Radio 1 Celebrates Amy Winehouse], because I'd thought, how do I best honour her? And I realised showing people how great she always was was the best way to celebrate her. Who was your favourite DJ growing up?John Peel. He was so personal and direct. And Sara Cox, since I was 15, 16. She'd be playing the Chemical Brothers and Missy Elliott, and she felt very funny and free. She still does. What are your biggest fears for the music industry?Gig venues closing, clubs closing, ticket prices soaring – it feels that every element of the musical landscape is being chipped away. But I do love that this conversation is very prevalent. We've heard Sam Fender talk recently about how [the music business] is a game for rich people and Myles Smith and Ezra Collective bring it up at the Brits. I don't want to sound defeatist, but we're in such a tough time for artists to be able to make money, to live. We are. So whose music or gig tickets should we be buying now?The new Marie Davidson album, City of Clowns, is wonderful. She's a Canadian producer, and 6 has played lots of her fantastic records in recent years. Then there's 1-800 Girls, this new artist called Naina, who's with us at the 6 Music festival, and a song really jumped out to me on Iggy Pop's show on Sunday, by Pan Amsterdam, called Confines, which is like a stream of consciousness, but he [Leron Thomas] wanted to have the same feeling like when you're scrolling social media. Oh, and he's a jazz trumpeter and rapper too. Of course he is – you can always trust Iggy! Nick Grimshaw presents on weekdays, 7-10am, BBC Radio 6 Music / BBC Sounds and will broadcast from the 6 Music Festival in Greater Manchester, 26-29 March
